Boat Details - Brave Puffin 2020
- Team Name: Brave Puffin
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Boat Name: Brave Puffin
- Intended Route: West to East
- Class: Non-Sailing
- Division: Autonomous
- Length: 1.8 m
- Weight: 22 kg
- Beam: 0.2 m
- Draft: 0.5 m
- Hull type: Aluminium inner frame, foam filled hull with carbon fibre outer layer.
- Power source: 100 W solar panel and 388 Wh Lithium Ion battery
- Actuators: Two brushless motors for rudderless thrust based steering
- Sensors: CMPS14 compass, NEO-6M GPS and temperature, humidity and pressure sensors
- Communications: Globalstar SmartOne C
- Computers: ESP32 microcontroller
- Other: A separate module manages a safety light and takes a picture every 15 minutes during the day
